To:Y. I. VISHNYAK[1]

Dictated:Dictated by phone on September 5, 1921Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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“MalyParizh” Room 5

DearComrade:

Ithank you very much for news of Lalayants. I am very
sorry to hear that he is outside the ranks of the R.C.P.

Pleasewrite me if you can in greater detail about why
he is outside the Party, when he left it, how he lived
under Kolchak in Siberia, etc.

Sinceyou think it worth while involving him in Soviet
government work, may I ask you to write me whether you
believe that we should find him work in Irkutsk or, perhaps,
it is possible and expedient to do so elsewhere, say,
Moscow.

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]OnY. I. Vishnyak’s letter there is this remark by Lenin:
“Vishnyak about Lalayants 5. IX. 1921, p.t.o.” On the other side
of the page, written in Lenin’s hand, are the beginning of the
document here published and the remark “by phone” (see Central
Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.P.S.U. Central Committee).